j.aic2010

j.aic2010 has 27 years experience and specializes in community, ER.

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1. How did you pass the ANCC certification exam?

   j.aic2010 replied to beckyfnp's topic in NP Students

   You have to look at HIPAA legislation, professional ethics, DEA legislation, nursing theorists, erikson's theory on developmental stages, prescribing for the older adult and physiological differences that will dictate what meds are safe (ie GFR). You...

2. How did you pass the ANCC certification exam?

   j.aic2010 replied to beckyfnp's topic in NP Students

   You are so right about the uselessness of all that theory. I wrote the exam a month ago and when I walked out, I thought to myself....all that prep to ensure that I clinically knew my stuff was for naught! I passed the exam, but it was by the grace o...

3. What is np school like

   j.aic2010 replied to Curious88's topic in NP Students

   I found the expectations at the graduate level intense. Lots of notes for clinicals. Had to find my own clinical sites and complete a total of 700 hours for the FNP requirements. I enjoyed the case studies and learned alot from them. The project that...

4. How did you pass the ANCC certification exam?

   j.aic2010 replied to beckyfnp's topic in NP Students

   Dr. Fitzgerald was very positive about the AANP exams at the seminar I attended in February, and did say that they were more clinically focused than the ANCC exam. It was a bit more difficult to prepare for the policy component of the exam, given tha...

5. How did you pass the ANCC certification exam?

   j.aic2010 replied to beckyfnp's topic in NP Students

   I recently passed the ANCC exam and attended Fitzgerald's seminar and used her 3rd edition certification review book, along with reviewing some pathophysiology, and managed to pass. I was blown away by the amount of theory, policy, and NP role issues...